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She wore a grey circle scarf over a jumper with another hoodie tied around her waist and leather looking tracksuit bottoms that disguised her slim figure.

Bradley was far from his usual hunky self as he wore his dark brown hair in a messy mop and covered up in a blue hoodie, faded jeans and hiking trainers.

Loved up: Suki still looked besotted with her older beau after nearly two years together

The couple strolled from the West Village to their hotel in Tribeca, and no doubt Bradley has been taking Suki to his favourite haunts while he stars in The Elephant Man on Broadway.

Speaking of his process before going stage, the actor told Deadline: 'I’m literally a blank slate, and I’m open, and I’m completely open is how I feel.

'Then I’m just waiting for him to come in, and I do it in a very sort of clinical way, the interpretation of his physical dilemma, and then the minute he says "Please!", that first breath, to me, the way I experience it is almost like I go away. It feels very out of body in a way, but very cleansing.'

Casual: The couple dressed down for the excursion into New York's West VIllage

Bradley says 'it’s hard physically' to play the role of John Merrick, a a severely deformed man of the 19th century.

'It’s a very wonderful thing to inhabit him,' Cooper says, 'he’s a beautiful soul for two hours, you know? I don’t feel like I’m in this other place. I feel very into the ground, very connected to everybody in the theater. It doesn’t feel like I’m somewhere else. I feel it’s very present.'

Suki herself is taking bigger steps into the acting world after making her movie debut - as a conceited model - in Love, Rose.

She'll next be seen as Marlene in the Divergent sequel Insurgent, opposite Shailene Woodley and Theo James.

Getting the message: Bradley checks his phone during a day out in New York City on Sunday afternoon

The Elephant Man: Bradley plays the deformed 19th century gentleman in the Broadway show opposite Alessandro Nivola and Patricia Clarkson